This 24-year-old woman is one of her mother’s three children.
“So, my mom had my sister before she married my dad. Before my dad passed away, he had stepped up as the father figure in my sister’s life (her father was, and still is, in the picture),” she said.
After her father’s passing, her mother began dating another man, and she had a child with this man (her half-brother).
Later, her mother and her partner broke up, and her half-brother’s father moved away and didn’t stay in contact with his son.
Her father died when she was 3, and according to her mother, her father left the house he owned to the two of them.
For many years, she hasn’t cared too much about her father’s assets, but that changed recently.
“A couple of days ago, we were talking about possibly selling the house, and my mom began talking about splitting it among myself, herself, and my siblings, and maybe giving some of it to my now stepdad as a thank you for taking care of us all this time,” she explained.
Right now, her family lives in a different country from where her father’s house is located.
For a couple of years, they rented out her father’s house, but there’s no one living there at the moment.
Her mother and her stepfather met in the country where their family currently lives.
Even though her stepfather never lived in her father’s house, she does acknowledge that he’s been a huge part of her family’s life, and he’s done a lot to help support the family.
While she understands the idea of allowing her stepfather to have some of the money from the sale of her father’s house because he contributed to taking care of them, she doesn’t think her half-siblings should have access to any of this money.
Her stepfather owns his own home and has other financial assets. He has never asked to receive any of the money from the sale of her father’s house, and he isn’t expecting to receive any, either.
In order to pay off her father’s house, they used her father’s money that he had left over after he passed away. Once they paid off the house, they used money from the tenants who rented it out to pay off the utilities.
When they didn’t have anyone renting out the house, or if they weren’t earning any money from it, her mother was responsible for making any necessary payments over the years.
She pointed out that her half-siblings would most likely receive inheritance money from their fathers, so allowing them to have some of the money after selling her father’s home doesn’t feel right.
Despite being uncomfortable with this, she hasn’t expressed this to her mother yet.
She doesn’t want to seem like a jerk, and she grew up in a culture where having differing views or arguing on how to split an inheritance is wrong.
“I have mentioned something in the past about the house being mine and not wanting to sell it at the time, and my mom made a comment about me not being a nice person for saying that,” she shared.
When their disagreement happened, she told her mother she was sorry and dropped the subject, but now that the topic is currently being discussed again, she doesn’t know if or how to share her thoughts without upsetting anyone.
She doesn’t think she is in any way entitled to the final decision on what to do with the house, so if her mother doesn’t agree with her, she would move on and let her mother move forward with what she wants to do.
What would you do if you were in her shoes?
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